My RedState post on the Matter Of Colorado.

Found here.  Short version: it seems increasingly obvious that the field has been conceded to Ted Cruz.  Which is remarkable, because if it had been fought out the results might have been different.

3 thoughts on “My RedState post on the Matter Of Colorado.”

  1. At the risk of being banned for not slamming Trump, I’d like to give a Colorado perspective on this.

    For the half century I have been caucusing, in presidential years the caucus does a preference poll, and delegates to county are elected from the precinct in part based on their presidential preference. At county, the delegates run for higher conventions [congressional district, state, and others] based in part on their known preferences in the presidential race. Delegates elected to the state convention voted on delegates to National from slates of National Delegate candidates presented by each campaign. The National delegation reflected what the Republicans in Colorado wanted.

    Supposedly there was a RNC rule change that for some reason forbade us from taking ANY preference polls, and that somehow only affected Colorado [according to the Colorado Republican Central Committee] despite all the other caucus states that take preference polls and allocate delegates by them. The Colorado Republican Central Committee says we will send a “truly uncommitted” delegation to Cleveland. In fact, the Central Committee selected the slates of candidates at Congressional District and State Convention for National based on them voting as the Party wants, with no input from the voters or the campaigns.

    If Jeb! was still in, they would have been instructed to vote for Jeb! Then Rubio. Now Cruz.

    There is a certain Supreme Soviet aspect of this process, no matter who your candidate is.

    And there are a lot of unhappy people about it.

  2. That may be why Trump pulled out. Although that would imply better organization then the Trump campaign has shown anywhere else.

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